Ever watched our home semi v Bayern Munich? 90 minutes of corners, long throw-ins and Big Nev taking free kicks. But we won and it's soon forgotten. Football supporters don't like to admit that all they want is a winning team.

Allardyce gets the best out of what's at hand and we need that more than ever at the moment.

It's sucks, it really does, but I'm starting to see that allardyce might just be what we need at this very moment.

Foreign managers have a terrible record coming into mid-season relegation battles in the Premier League.

That could also be to do with that most coming in wouldnt necessarily be very good managers or be coming in much later in the season, with poorer squads and expectations. I know our squad has problems but there still some very good players in there performing badly.

Someone like Tuchel, and I still dont think he will want to come, is a very good manager on the shortlist of people like Bayern and Chelsea for next managers. Plus he could have say 27 games if he got the job during the international break which is plenty of time to get a team much higher up the table rather than putting someone in with 8 games to go and hoping they get to grips quickly.

We need 30 points (10 wins) to stay up - do we look capable of getting 10 wins in 28 games?

Bit of a scary thought. Only thing that helps me be totally non despondent is that applies to the teams around us too. Equally a tough task for Swansea, Stoke, etc. We just need to stay in touch with most and hope we can fix things in January.

Bit of a scary thought. Only thing that helps me be totally non despondent is that applies to the teams around us too. Equally a tough task for Swansea, Stoke, etc. We just need to stay in touch with most and hope we can fix things in January.

How the fuck do we fix it though. We don't seem capable. Couldn't get a striker when we were a team on the up. We'll be shopping in a much crappier market in the new year.

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Likes...

I would hate to be Bill making this decision. When he got Koeman he must have thought he would not face this dilemma again during his reign, or maybe for a very long time at least. I hope his health is up to the strain. The odd camera flash of his face recently shows a very unhappy man, just like the rest of us.